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About

the VANESSA MARTIN-LANGONE

Artist Vanessa Martin-Langone loves experimenting and working with mixed-media and encaustics.

Her work ranges from abstract to figurative and nearly always influenced by her love of nature. In
her recent body of work, Langone explores the effect of a world pandemic on our lives. Most of us
have had a lot of time to think, without our daily distractions. As an artist, Langone has relied on
her practice more than ever to explore isolation and the conflict of structure versus organic and
unstoppable Mother Nature.

She received a Textile Design degree from FIDM and has taken many classes including studying
extensively at Art Center Print Studio under artist Erik Mark Sanberg and Master Printer Tony
Zepeda. Zepeda worked with renowned artists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg,
Ellsworth Kelly and others. Langone has been commissioned by several Interior designers to
create paintings for their own collections and their clients’ private collections.

Langone was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and currently lives in Los Angeles, California
with her husband and their two energetic boys. She is a very proud hockey and soccer mom.
When not at a rink or soccer pitch, she enjoys yoga, photography, the ocean, reading, travelling,
museums and going to the movies with her family.

About We all share the experiences of life, death, grief and rebirth literally and metaphorically. Life

is short and Covid has woken a lot of us up to how we want to curate the components needed
to live our best and happiest lives. The yearning for community and realisation that we need and
the depend upon each other has been hi-lighted and weeding out what does not serve us. With all

our distractions taken away when everything shut down, we were left with our thoughts, simplicity,
Work chats at a distance with neighbours, walks around the neighbourhood and the role of nature as a
comfort has become more prominent.

As an introvert and an artist, the last eighteen months really allowed me to fully immerse myself in
my work and I have never been more productive. My process is mostly intuitive and I enjoy how
my painting reveals itself as if it’s being channeled through my hands. During my creative process,
I feel a connection to the influence of lineage. The passing on of information and traditions from
our families and teachers and the knowing that we will share too. Making art is a meditative and
cathartic experience and has been an anchoring practice especially as my dear dad passed away
this year. I am grieving the profound impact and emptiness of his loss.

Writing poetry also helps me process my emotions and express my creativity. Ideas for my next
series include exploring how to combine my art and poetry. The motifs in my work reference
isolation, self-reflection, emergence, nature, butterflies with their life cycle and textured layers
mimic weathered surfaces exposed to time and the elements. Mother Nature is such a force and
communicates in her own way. Action, reaction. Covid, BLM movement, extreme weather, global
warming, science proving we are being willfully destructive and showing us that this has to change.
We urgently need to be more in tune with each other and our planet to preserve and protect what
we have for our precious future generations.

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